Breaks & Joins Podcast

Rebecca Hayes Laughton has supported the Women for Refugee Women drama groups for 7 years, hosting a space for women who are refugees and asylum seekers, where creativity, laughter, and finding words for the unspeakable come together. Part of the wider campaigning organisation, W4RW, the group regularly perform at events, conferences and celebrations. Rebecca  is working towards her PhD , and is a...

Tony Cealy is an Arts Development Practitioner, Consultant, Trainer & Producer Founder , Director & Producer of 492 Korna Klub the UK's only weekly improvised radio drama exploring social issues amongst the black community Artistic Agitator Fellow Brixton House - connecting strangers & beginning difficult conversations in shared spaces about Brixton and its people Co-Founder &...

Parisa Wright is is the founder and CEo of Greener & Cleaner, a sustainable living charity. She left her 20 year career in law to focus fully on addressing the climate crisis by making sure that susatinable living is accessible and inclusive for all.  Greer and Cleaner runs The Hub inThe Glades Shopping Centre in Bromley, running classes and workshops, mending surgeries and capaign events, and...

Gail is an award-winning theatre maker who specialises in creating new work that centres and celebrates Black British experiences. As a dramaturg and director, she has created shows for theatres, found sites (including museums and a derelict school), as well as national and international touring. Recent credits include work with Brixton House, Fuel, China Plate, National Youth Theatre, Talawa Thea...

Molly is an artist who lives and works in London. Her art work looks at negative space with a considered colour palette, and a delicate approach to the drawn line. Drawing from life as well as memory, dreams and imagination, Molly creates work around a sense of place, belonging and time. Molly is also a professional textile repairer and researcher, specialising in delicate fabrics and traditional...

David is a London-born storyteller, founder/director of ethical agency Good Point, and an artist who writes, makes films, and performs. Currently he's developing and touring a tragicomic one-man show about fatherhood called Pieces of a Man, along with an interactive workshop to help people reconfigure their internal relationships with their parents. David has lived in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Ber...

Rachel trained as a potter in Belfast and Kilkenny and has developed  a unique ceramics practice that explores concepts such as Hope, Grief and Scars. Based In Macclesfield she exhibits in galleries but also in public spaces, entering into a dialogue with those who view and pick up her work. HOME | RachelHoCeramics Send us Fan Mail Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stu...

Sudip Chakroborthy recently gained his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. he is an experienced theatre director who has worked extensively in Bangladesh, Canada and the UK. He teaches at the University of Dhaka Ali Campbell is Professor of Applied Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. A specialist in collaborative theatre making, he trained with Augusto Boal, and his work has take...

Designer and Maker Suzi Warren is a co-founder of Twisted Twee, designing, making and upcycling clothes with a satirical twist. Suzi created 'Stitch it Don't Ditch it', initially by setting up a chair outside a fast fashion shop and sitting and mending, to start conversations. This gentle protest has now grown, with lines of menders snaking down high streets across the UK. Suzi is l...

Amanda Mascarenhas is a Theatre Designer and Visual Artist. She specialises in immersive and sensory design, and also works extensively in participatory settings. She is Associate artist with Kazzum Arts a member of the Breaks & Joins team https://www.amandamascarenhas.com/about Mo Sumah runs Mend it with Mo, a repair cafe, at the Telegraph Hill Centre, where he is also Facilities Manager. Mo...

Liz Honeybone is in the textile department at the National Theatre. She has always sewn, making and adapting her own clothes, and she shares her expertise on dye, on making costumes speak through their colour and texture, on responding to furlough by making scrubs for the NHS and learning about natural dyes. Her infectious energy and enthusiasm make this episode as good as a strong coffee, and my...

Sylvan is a neuro diverse care leaver, practitioner and researcher who has been working across the fields of applied theatre, socially engaged arts and education for the past 30 years. His practice has taken place across the UK and globally in sites in Brazil, and the USA,  More recently my work has centred around developing research that allows its participants to be co researchers and not object...

Both Raj and Claire have broken bones, in a way that brought them to a halt . They chat about fractures, doctors, slowing down and slow mending. Raj Bhari is a facilitator and trainer in Peacebuilding, who works internationally and in the UK, managing conflict and building peaceful communities. Raj teaches on the MA Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, andis a member of the Breaks & Joins team  Clai...

We chat to Rose Sinclair, Design Lecturer at Goldsmiths,  A textile specialist, she talks about all things mending, and the Dorcas Clubs, where women from the Caribbean traditionally met to sew and knit and chat together. @Dorcasstories https://www.gold.ac.uk/design/people/sinclair/ Send us Fan Mail Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities...